Sustainable Self-care for a Successful School Year

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Do you wish you could end the school year feeling as energized as you started it?

Or wish you could hit a reset button right now?

Are you ready to press reset but have no idea where that button is?

Look no further. We’ve got the button.

The Healthy, Happy, Sane Teacher: Sustainable Self-Care for a Successful School Yearis what you need to make teaching joyful, next school year delightful, and living a balanced life not just possible but in your control.

We are starting a movement to empower teachers to claim their self-care and live more balanced and healthy lives.

The bonus? Nothing suffers—not your personal life and not your professional life. In fact, it will actually make you an even bigger rock star at your school while making you happier at home.

We know what you are going through and we have been there, done that with all the “solutions” that actually made things worse. Now, we have actually figured out what makes things better and we don’t want to keep those secrets to ourselves. That’s why we are sharing them with you.

The Healthy, Happy, Sane Teacher: Sustainable Self-Care For a Successful School Year.

Imagine having teaching veterans walk you through best practices for self-care, letting go of the pressure for perfection, understanding how to name and claim your intentions, checking in with yourself when things get tough so you know how to tweak things, understanding what boundaries to set and how to set them, and the power of claiming your life.

Imagine inspiring guidance that actually has you lay out a plan now so that you can actually do less with more.

We are offering you five weeks of powerful learning, action taking, and life changing reflection because, while it wasn’t covered in your certification program, it is what you most need to sustain yourself as a teacher.

What is The Healthy, Happy, Sane Teacher?

HHST is a five-week virtual workshop experience for passionate teachers who do so much brilliantly but are looking for a way to continue to be brilliant while not working SO hard.

It will be fun. It will be clear. And it will be just what you need to create a lesson plan for you to teach and work in a way that allows you to live and enjoy all of your life.

What would it feel like to know that you can start next year with all of that hope and none of the dread?

Wouldn’t that be amazing?

It is time.

You are ready to be a healthy, happy, sane teacher if…

You are ready to be honest with yourself.

You are ready to do things differently.

You are ready to keep your promise to yourself.

You are ready to allow less effort to actually create more success.

You are ready to prioritize your own care.

You are ready to create and live the life you have imagined.

What is The Healthy, Happy, Sane Teacher?

The Healthy, Happy, Sane Teacher is a five week self-study self-care program. You can pace it any way you wish and take as long as you want on each week’s lesson.

What’s Included?

5 Illuminating Audio Recordings- One-hour recordings where we provide powerful guidance for you on creating a healthy, happy, sane life and map out the steps for the action plan you will be creating and putting into place.

5 Powerful Workbooks- Weekly workbooks with all the exercises you need to create you healthy, happy, sane life action plan and the guidance to help you put it all in motion.

Are you ready to change your teaching life so you can change your whole life? Are you ready to be a healthy, happy, sane teacher?

Healthy Happy Sane Teacher Home Study Program

An easy-to-follow, inspiring 5-week program designed for teachers who want to take control of their lives—at their own pace.

Who We Are

During a life spent figuring out how to empower myself, I found my mission: to empower women and girls to embrace their authentic selves so they can live their passion and purpose and give their gifts to the world. The author of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance and Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina,I teach courses on body image at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and facilitate transformative workshops and retreats for women while speaking on body image, identity, social justice, and diversity around the country.

A former high school teacher and coach, I learned the importance of self-care when I ended up hospitalized just months after one of my students wrote me a note that said, “I fear that you may give until you give out.” Direct words from the ER doctor I saw twice in one week (“I am willing to keep seeing you here as long as you are willing to keep landing yourself here”), taught me a valuable lesson about self-care that I have worked hard to hold onto more than a decade later.

I am a former politico, public school teacher turned restorative yoga teacher. I believe the stress of modern life caused by too much work, unhealed trauma, and the cultural love of busyness can be cured with restorative yoga.

For years I worked long hours thinking if I just put more time into my job, I could some how get ahead instead of always feeling like I was one step behind or I could make even more of a difference. Only when I got too sick to get out of bed would I allow myself to rest.

During my yoga teacher training at It’s All Yoga in Sacramento, I discovered the benefits of restorative yoga and have seen my own mental and physical health dramatically improve from this practice. As a recovering Type A perfectionist, I know how hard it is to take a break. However, I have seen first hand how taking care of myself enables me to take better care of those who depend on me.